Christ Church (Middletown)

Christ Church is a historic Episcopalian church in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. During the 1680s, the first Anglican services in Middletown were held at the home of the chaplain Alexander Innes, but, by 1701, Governor Lewis Morris wrote to the Bishop of London about the "wicked" Middletown; in 1738, King George II of Great Britain granted the Christ Church an official charter that was signed by William Burnet; Christ Church was built in 1744. The church survived the American Revolutionary War despite being located near several battles and skirmishes, and it was used as a British hospital after the Battle of Monmouth.